With the Chiefs playing at Oakland the Thursday before Thanksgiving one year ago, Carol Berry was at home in Creekside, Ga.
Her son, Chiefs safety Eric Berry, “never wants us to go to Oakland,” she said, laughing in reference to the inhospitable crowd apt to greet Chiefs’ faithful there.
Still, he couldn’t keep her from watching, even if she had to break from routine by recording “Scandal” to watch later.
As she watched the unsightly 24-20 loss to a Raiders team that had lost 16 in a row, she noticed something that she shrugged off then but would later strike her as telling.